Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was a no-show at the na­tion­al day of prayer she had pub­licly cham­pi­oned to re­place the coun­try’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, a move that drew swift and point­ed crit­i­cism from Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les.

He is the man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Caribbean Chem­i­cal, a com­pa­ny found­ed by his fa­ther, Joe Pires Snr in 1966.

Since gain­ing in­de­pen­dence in 1962, Trinidad and To­ba­go have pro­duced sev­er­al world-class ath­letes and suc­cess­ful teams. These are some of our out­stand­ing sport­ing am­bas­sadors from yes­ter­year:

As T&T marks its 63rd year of in­de­pen­dence, the rhythms of ca­lyp­so and so­ca will take cen­tre stage in a spe­cial trib­ute con­cert ho­n­our­ing two of the art­form’s tow­er­ing fig­ures—Em­rold Phillip, bet­ter known as the Peo­ple’s Ca­lyp­son­ian Bro Valenti­no, and the late Ce­cil Hume, the trail­blaz­ing Mae­stro.

Caribbean crick­eters, those from the crick­et­ing world and the fran­chise teams of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), pro­vide great en­joy­ment to fans lo­cal­ly and on world­wide tele­vi­sion. In ad­di­tion to the ex­cit­ing na­ture of the T20 for­mat, the tour­na­ment pro­vides a great source of in­come to play­ers, fran­chise own­ers, the tele­vi­sion cir­cuit, coach­es, man­agers and ad­min­is­tra­tive staff of the teams.